Joe Chatterton's Angling Diary

Being an all round angler has it's benefits and it's downsides. I could never be a single species angler, fair play to those that ...

The river looked in perfect condition this evening, just a touch of colour to it and virtually at normal summer level. Everything was alive,...

At last we had some summer weather forecast and that influenced my decision as to what to fish for. An overgrown lily pad infested pool ...

Landing a target fish does not complete the task, it merely creates another target. Having caught a 9lb 12oz Carp on the fly a couple of wee...

Despite the terrible inclement weather I ventured down to the Warks Avon for a couple of hours Barbel fishing this evening. I knew I would h...

The Warwickshire Avon has been up and down since the start of the season. At the start of the season it was a very strong reddish brown co...

Last week I was happy to have hooked (and lost) a Carp on a fly. This week I wanted to go one stage better. The weather gods were kind aga...

7lb 0oz Had an urge to test my new fly rod against some battling Rainbows so headed down to Lechlade fishery. It was lunchtime by the ti...

I have just finished reading Dom Garnett's Flyfishing for Coarse Fish and this was the inspiration for an evening session chasing Ca...

I have spent the week watching the river rise and fall and rise again. Couple that with the torrential rain forecast for opening day of the ...

Duck Key, Florida 6th June  I felt that I had some unfinished business with the big Silver Kings of the Keys and my aching body had just ab...

A millpond Duck key, Florida 4th June 2012. Two days after the Tarpon battle I was still feeling the effects, back ache and a bruised ...

June 2nd, I don't want to make you all jealous but as I sit here writing this it is 28 degrees, 10.37pm and my view is of the hotel po...